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Drew_K
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Feb 03, 2014

Help with selecting WD hitch capacity for a travel trailer

Hi all, My wife and I just put a deposit down on our first RV, a new 2014 Roamer 316RLS travel trailer. We're pretty excited after tent camping & borrowing my parents' Class C RV for many years. ...
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2500_Grunt
Explorer
Feb 05, 2014
BarneyS wrote:
If you are talking about a genuine Equal-i-zer hitch, the bars are specific to the weight class and are not interchangable with heavier or lighter weight class hitch heads. If you have 1000lb bars and want a heavier or lighter one, you need to purchase a whole new hitch.

This is generally not the case with most other brands of hitches.
Barney


Yes! The shank flange material on my new 17k Equal-I-zer is about 1/8" thicker than my old 10k one even though the bars appear to be the same?

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